@genopolanco_PSN said:

@dodgers19k88_MLBTS

You must play this game an unhealthy amount then.

Don’t care about stances. I can edit them myself.

Then they aren’t real so stop complaining about everything needing to be real. I play enough to know if you don’t cheat and edit the players ratings for the players you whine about not having accurate face scans they won’t be viable players in your franchise anyways. Not for someone who plays less than me and I only manage a couple seasons in a game cycle.

You must play this game an unhealthy amount then.

Don’t care about stances. I can edit them myself.

@PolKrout_XBL said:

Samuel bassallo is 6’4” 250 lbs and yall still have him at 280 lbs. no scan or batting stance for him either.

*180 lbs... His Live Series is 180.

That Topps Now card they have is spot on though. His stance is also spot on compared to others.

And to be fair, he's still a newer player. However I still don't see Jorge Mateo on that long list of yours though.
He's had the same exact player model since he was with the SD Padres, since literally COVID.

@dodgers19k88_MLBTS said:

@genopolanco_PSN said:

@dodgers19k88_MLBTS

It’s irrelevant to the conversation. Fixing foul ball rates and adding face scans are surely handled by 2 completely different teams. It’s not going to take away from gameplay tuning to add face scans. Not like they would anyway. They want foul balls to be like this.

You’re not going to finish the XP path playing offline anyway. If you adjust more than just the foul ball slider, you can definitely reduce foul ball frequency with sliders.

I finish every inning and play franchise about 85% of the time. I occasionally get into the idiotic wheel. I also finish every program. I just prefer franchise over DD and play zero online. I finish every inning but barely.

Just incase your didn’t know since faces are so important. Most of them do not have the correct batting stances or pitching windups and that won’t ever get added. At least the face scans actually get added at some point when the players care enough to do it.

Here's the thing: Some players don't even have their animations at all.

@genopolanco_PSN said:

@dodgers19k88_MLBTS

It’s irrelevant to the conversation. Fixing foul ball rates and adding face scans are surely handled by 2 completely different teams. It’s not going to take away from gameplay tuning to add face scans. Not like they would anyway. They want foul balls to be like this.

You’re not going to finish the XP path playing offline anyway. If you adjust more than just the foul ball slider, you can definitely reduce foul ball frequency with sliders.

I finish every inning and play franchise about 85% of the time. I occasionally get into the idiotic wheel. I also finish every program. I just prefer franchise over DD and play zero online. I finish every inning but barely.

Just incase your didn’t know since faces are so important. Most of them do not have the correct batting stances or pitching windups and that won’t ever get added. At least the face scans actually get added at some point when the players care enough to do it.

@StinkyMcPooter_XBL said:

@BillyBB1133_PSN If you have read all the posts, you will see I have mentioned this several times.

SDS and the MLBPA do indeed have an agreement. SDS does indeed have the rights to the images and likenesses of the players.

What they don't have, is the right to drag any player into their offices and force them to submit to a face scan. The players must still willfully, of their own volition, take their physical bodies to where SDS conducts the scans and get them done.

If they don't have the face scan, they can either wait until the player submits to one, or use a cheesy pasted on picture and end up looking like that screen of Altuve that @savefarris_psn posted previously. They don't wish to do the latter. Therefore, they wait until they get a scan.

So, please, understand the difference between having the rights to their likeness and obtaining their likeness.

Some just never learn.

It’s irrelevant to the conversation. Fixing foul ball rates and adding face scans are surely handled by 2 completely different teams. It’s not going to take away from gameplay tuning to add face scans. Not like they would anyway. They want foul balls to be like this.

You’re not going to finish the XP path playing offline anyway. If you adjust more than just the foul ball slider, you can definitely reduce foul ball frequency with sliders.

@genopolanco_PSN said:

@dodgers19k88_MLBTS

More of this BS lol. They can do both. Actually you can fix foul ball rates yourself with sliders, but DD, they want the foul ball rates how they are because it bails out bad players.

1. If you change the sliders you lose Gameplay XP and won’t complete the inning in DD.

2. I played with them all the way down to the left and it didn’t matter. So no.

More of this BS lol. They can do both. Actually you can fix foul ball rates yourself with sliders, but DD, they want the foul ball rates how they are because it bails out bad players.

Myself personally. I’d rather they fix the foul ball rates not being 25-30 percent of the time vs 15-20 percent of the time as they keep saying they have and the 10 plus pitch at bats which should happen 1% of the time in the real world not 5 plus times per game.

SDS and the MLBPA do indeed have an agreement. SDS does indeed have the rights to the images and likenesses of the players.

What they don't have, is the right to drag any player into their offices and force them to submit to a face scan. The players must still willfully, of their own volition, take their physical bodies to where SDS conducts the scans and get them done.

If they don't have the face scan, they can either wait until the player submits to one, or use a cheesy pasted on picture and end up looking like that screen of Altuve that @savefarris_psn posted previously. They don't wish to do the latter. Therefore, they wait until they get a scan.

So, please, understand the difference between having the rights to their likeness and obtaining their likeness.

The truth is that there are issues with Sony and the multiple play options available. The right hand doesn't sometimes know what the left hand is doing. That's why you get player cards in Diamond Dynasty but not in Road to the Show or Franchise.

@StinkyMcPooter_XBL said:

@bleachfro_MLBTS Well, the Mets were in L.A. in early May and mid April. It's only a couple hours down the road. He could have gone down there in either road trip.

Just saying.

And the Dodgers just played in San Diego. Alex Vesia was just updated.

Okay, so after much Googling, I think I have an understanding of what's going on:

MiLB players, whilst members of the MLBPA, have their own CBA. The CBA for minor league players states that rights to the player's likeness etc., are owned by the player and any use of the player's likeness has to be negotiated with the player themselves.

When the player's contract is selected by a major league team, then their rights are handled by MLBPI.

So, what this boils down to is if a player has not appeared in a MLB game, SDS must work out a deal with them. Once the player has appeared in a game, then SDS can use an image or likeness of the player they have retained.

Thus, it is possible SDS has a trove of face scans they collected in spring training, but are unable to use them until the player is on a 26 man MLB roster.

I know this doesn't explain all the young players, but it does explain some of them.

EDIT: Sorry, replied to the wrong post.

Like I said earlier, this could all be avoided if they just released everything they had on the first update. Then there’d be no more wondering. I think this is purely a Franchise frustration.